[3830] ARRLDX CW EA8EA(OH2MM) SOAB HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: EA8EA
Operator(s): OH2MM
Station: EA8AH

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Canary Islands
Operating Time (hrs): 40

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  119    27
   80:  503    55
   40: 1120    59
   20: 1237    60
   15:  470    48
   10:    0     0
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Total: 3449   249  Total Score = 2,565,198

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

TNX Pekka, EA8AH (OH1RY) for the opportunity to use his nice QTH and station.

The QTH is on the Northern part of Gran Canary island, on a mountain ridge at
28 38' 48'' North & 15 38' 11'' West, in case you'd like to look it up in
Google Earth. The elevation is 1400 ft above the sea level. The land slopes
deeply toward the Atlantic ocean with a clean shot to North America. One could
not wish for a better location in Northern Africa.

Antennas:
  160: Inverted-V at 85 ft
   80:  2 el wire beam at 70 ft
   40:  3 el wire beam at 70 ft 
   20:  4 el yagi at 50 ft
   15:  4 el yagi at 45 ft
   10:  4 el yagi at 40 ft
   Beverage, 600 ft long 

The antennas are not very high above the ground but they are close to the edge
of the mountain ridge.      

Rig:
   Yaesu FT100MP Mark V
   ACOM 2000 amp
   Win-Test contest software  

As seen in the Summary table, 10 was dead. 15 was also poor with mostly weak
signals and very few West Coast stns coming through. The bad propagation was
also obvious on 160 with difficulties to reach West Coast.

We can't rival the guys operating from the Caribbean. However, unlike them, we
can have a good 4 hours sleep on both days, with all 6 bands being closed to
NA.


73, Ville EA8EA OH2MM


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